Sentences with phrase «urban built environments in»

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In addition to better zoning laws, post-hurricane redevelopment should include reshaping the built environment of urban centers to better withstand severe weather events, and replenishing coastal wetlands to create a buffer against the effects of hurricanes.

83 Degrees Media tells the stories of urban and emerging neighborhoods, community building, placemaking, entrepreneurship, creativity, arts and growing companies by featuring stories about talent, innovation, global diversity and environment in the Tampa Bay region of Florida.

Out of these shared convictions and the culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens in their origins, the common destiny for which they longed, and the virtues necessary for success in their individual and collective journeys through life.

Instead of one main paved street, there was a medley of surfaced streets, churches, buildings of all kinds, and all the noise of a busy urban and commercial environment to be found in a town with a population of 12,000.

Whether that's an energy efficient building that increases productivity for tenants or an adaptive reuse project that transforms a forgotten address into an urban destination, our developments generate superior value, inspire end users, and improve the environment we live, work, and play in.

The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built - up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.

«Cities need to «green up» to reduce impact of air pollution: The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built - up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.»

Until that point, Bolderson had worked as a freelance archaeologist around England, mostly in urban environments, where she assessed building sites before development.

In one of his own studies, published this past March in the American Journal of Health Promotion, Sallis collaborated with urban design specialist Lawrence Frank of the University of British Columbia and others to link Atlanta's built environment with walking patterns in the citIn one of his own studies, published this past March in the American Journal of Health Promotion, Sallis collaborated with urban design specialist Lawrence Frank of the University of British Columbia and others to link Atlanta's built environment with walking patterns in the citin the American Journal of Health Promotion, Sallis collaborated with urban design specialist Lawrence Frank of the University of British Columbia and others to link Atlanta's built environment with walking patterns in the citin the city.

Of course, the Fon system is not likely to work except in urban areas where the population density is sufficient to sustain the network; outside those environments, top - down solutions will have to be employed to build the network out.

However, there are some objections to the theory that it was a Mithraic temple as it is in a necropolis, an uncommon site for buildings used for this cult which were more often found in domestic, urban or rural environments.

Professor Horne is a leader in research and practice on urban issues, leading more than 100 industry - linked research projects on the built environment, urban sustainability and social change since 2005.

While the focus of this research was on Chaco Canyon, the researchers found the conclusions for water management systems and kinship mobility relevant to modern urban centers built in arid environments anywhere and anytime in the world.

The study, supported by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple urban systems, including land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.

The strongest associations were seen in urban areas, especially for the air and built environment domains.

He began his career studying the physiology of trees, but in recent years has broadened his focus to the urban environment: chimneys, exhaust pipes, buildings, pipelines, pavements.

The Council's mission is to disseminate multi-disciplinary information on tall buildings and sustainable urban environments, to maximize the international interaction of professionals involved in creating the built environment.

Godzilla is a game about giant monsters fighting each other in various urban environments as buildings crumble around them and military vehicles try to bring the beasts down.

In 2010 npower launched a national competition to help reverse this trend and to transform ten areas of grey built up urban school environments into spaces that allowed children's eco-imaginations to bloom.

Landscape architects and urban planners are responding to this need for a softer and greener built environment by incorporating «green» wildlife corridors, pocket parks, landscaped squares, green roofs and living walls in urban areas.

«The system is built in a way to punish unfairly urban environments,» said Urbanski.

The Council's mission is to disseminate multi-disciplinary information on tall buildings and sustainable urban environments, to maximize the international interaction of professionals involved in creating the built environment.

Juxtaposing images of the First World War memorial in the churchyard with the cranes and girders of contemporary urban development, Emin's personal heartache now becomes a metaphor for the lives fractured by the conflict, the passage of time and for the loss and eradication — as well as survival and perpetuation — of history and memory within the built environment.

Organized annually by the Municipal Art Society, the MASterworks Awards recognize projects from the preceding year that exemplify excellence in architecture and urban design, and make a significant contribution to New York's built environment.

In these recent paintings, Sandy Litchfield investigates the formal and conceptual relationship between the urban built environment, the countryside, and the forest.

Lodewijks uses urban environments as a canvas for his abstract chalk drawings, from residential buildings in quiet suburbs to street surfaces in bustling city centres.

Casualties is a multi-part installation of new work by BOLT Resident Annette Barbier, exploring the tension between the built environment and the marginalized place of nature in our urban spaces.

Crafting abstract paintings from fragments of the urban environment — permanent - wave end papers, billboard paper, posters, newsprint — Mark Bradford has built a body of work that is richly layered in both material and meaning.

In the new group show Reconstructions at Swan Coach House Gallery through February 16, ordinary elements of the built environment serve as the springboard for examination of evolving urban landscapes.

The gardens she chooses to photograph are often in unlikely surroundings, on the side of an apartment building or behind a chain - link fence, and show the strategies that plants or their gardeners use to survive in an urban environment.

The artist's intention is to establish a progressive path through several purposefully built interconnected environments which enables the viewer to experience the passage from a dimension of noise, chaos and visual saturation — expressing life in contemporary cities — to a neutral setting where he intends to conduct a methodical dissection of familiar urban components with recourse to the unconventional media and destructive techniques which he has been exploring in his work.»

French philosopher Henri Lefebvre, in his 1973 text Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, considers not simply buildings but the possibilities of imaginative, sensory experience in our urban environments.

Chalk (about the work of Bart Lodewijks) From residential buildings in quiet suburbs to street surfaces in bustling city centres, Dutch artist Bart Lodewijks uses urban environments as a canvas for his abstract chalk drawings.

Longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize in 2013, Rejmer - Canovas takes her inspiration from the urban landscape, finding that the environment around her offers up the opportunity to observe the deterioration of buildings.

Following his family's emigration from Poland to Canada during his childhood and his later studies in the field of architecture in Winnipeg, Pyszczek laid the focus of his artistic work on the phenomenon of mass - produced residential blocks, in particular on the «embellishment» of their façades and building structures, which also extend into the surrounding environment and, with this, into interconnected, urban systems.

Untitled: crushed shape is one of a number of drawings that explores process and the behaviour of materials, and in Untitled: basel structure, Barlow gathers inspiration from the structures and materials of the urban built environment.

In one art, Gallaccio's aesthetic act is to move the tree from its normal outdoor environment to an urban industrial building adapted as an exhibition space.

Our in - house experts and a dedicated network of volunteers are helping to transform the built environment in New York City with models that can be replicated in urban centers nationwide.

The Netherlands offers inspiration for designers looking to create environments that harvest water, energy and nutrients by William McDonough Published April 23, 2014 in the Guardian Urban farms are transforming inner city spaces — rooftops, infrastructure, streetscapes, building skin — into generative ecologies that support the lives of people, and pollinators too.

By establishing a flexible approach, the ZERO Code is applicable to all new commercial and institutional buildings, and mid - to high - rise housing, including buildings with limited on - site renewable energy generating capacity (e.g. buildings in dense urban environments).

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Although urban and rural regions in the Northeast have profoundly different built and natural environments, both include populations that have been shown to be highly vulnerable to climate hazards and other stresses.

In urban environments, there is air pollution from infrastructure, buildings and vehicles burning fossil fuels, and from dust.

Paul currently works in applied research at CUNY Building Performance Laboratory, supervises graduate students at City College's graduate program in sustainability in the urban environment, trains and consults in teaching techniques for Urban Green Council, and manages energy efficiency projects in the private seurban environment, trains and consults in teaching techniques for Urban Green Council, and manages energy efficiency projects in the private seUrban Green Council, and manages energy efficiency projects in the private sector.

Touring often takes me to urban or rural environments in freezing or warm weather so I built 4 portable solar panel holders for my Renogy 2000 Watt Solar System.

By establishing a net zero balance of carbon - free energy consumption, this ZNC definition can apply to all new and existing building types including those with limited on - site renewable energy capacity, such as buildings in dense urban environments.

He began his career studying the physiology of trees, but in recent years has broadened his focus to the urban environment: chimneys, exhaust pipes, buildings, pipelines, pavements.

By building the cinema in an existing staircase, Oh No Sumo took advantage of the built environment with the skill and creativity that marks the work of «urban hacktivist» Florian Rivère.

I would ask that architect on the radio where he would plant those «big trees» that can shade the entire roof of a commercial building, in the middle of a densely built - up urban environment?

Open Building was a term first used by John Habraken decades ago to describe «the idea of distinct Levels of intervention in the built environment, such as those represented by «support» and «infill», or by urban design and architecture.»